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25 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the eleventh race in Germany are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hungary next weekend on 1st August.

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Bulgaria are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Finland on THURSDAY 29th July (a day earlier than usual!).

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the tenth race in Silverstone are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hockenheim on 25th July.

27 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the ninth race in Valencia are in, including the penalties for the naughty boys driving too fast. Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Silverstone on 11th July.

13 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the eighth race in Canada are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Valencia on 27th June.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Portugal are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Bulgaria on 9th July.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the exciting seventh race in Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Canada on 13th June.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The Monaco scores have been updated to reflect Michael Schumacher's ridiculous penalty for daring to overtake a Ferrari. Check the updated results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the sixth race in Monaco are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 30th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the fifth race in Barcelona are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monaco on 16th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally New Zealand are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Portugal on 28th May.

19 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is New Zealand on 7th May.

18 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the fourth race in China are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Barcelona on 9th May.

06 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The JWRC driver lineup has been released, so you can make your selection before teams are frozen for Turkey on the night of 15th April. If you don't pick anyone, you'll get Aaron Burkart by default.

05 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the third race in Malaysia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is China on 18th April.

03 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Jordan are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 14th April.

29 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the second race in Melbourne are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia THIS WEEKEND on 4th April.

14 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the first race in Bahrain are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Australia on 28th March.

09 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1! Yes, there's a brand new Fantasy Formula One game! Check the rules or enter your team by Friday night to qualify for the first race in Bahrain!

08 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Mexico are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Jordan on 1st April.

17 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The points awarded for a win have changed in the real WRC, so we've reflected the changes in our scoring too. Check the rules to see the details. Next rally is Mexico on 5th March, teams will be frozen at midnight on the night of Thursday 4th March.

16 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

31 / 01 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The new rally season is upon us - 2010 Fantasy Rally is now open! Check the rules or pick a team ready for the start on 12th Feb.

25 / 10 / 2009
Fantasy Rally: All previous years' Fantasy Rally results are online - Check the 2009 season.

02 / 08 / 2009
Reviews: Sorry, there won't be any more movie reviews for the foreseeable future. Events have overtaken me. Catch up on reviews you may have missed.

18 / 08 / 2005
Sudoku! Have a go at the online Sudoku game.

  

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2010 Forwardcharm Fantasy F1 Rules

Welcome to the 2010 Forwardcharm Fantasy F1 championship.

The idea is simple. Pick a team, change it as many times as you like throughout the year and score points when your selections do well in the real Formula One Championship. The game is just for fun, it costs nothing to enter and you can enter multiple teams if you like. For the inaugural year at least, there will be no prizes, it really is just a bit of fun.

To enter, simply create your team from the link above. There is no "team budget", so you can chop and change as many times as you like for no penalty, except during a race weekend. Each selection has a weighting, decided by me and is likely to change during the season if they do better or worse than expected. The selection's score is multiplied by its weighting at the start of the race, thus giving the less orthodox selections more chance to contribute to your team's score. For example, Jenson Button may have a weighting of 1 as he is likely to score lots. Bruno Senna, however, may be less likely to do well and so his weighting may be 7, meaning he scores seven times as much as Button does. The effect of this weighting is to level the playing field - you won't win if you play safe with the big boys, you'll only make it to the top if you can predict the underdogs' success.

The weighting of any selection will only ever change while the site is locked during a race. This means that once you pick a driver, you can be confident that his weighting won't change before the start of the next race. In practice, the weightings rarely change after the first two or three races.

Scoring

Your team consists of three drivers and one car - that's all. Scoring is calculated at the end of each race weekend according to the results listed on www.f1.com. In the real F1 championships, points are awarded in accordance with the FIA standard:

  • 25 points for 1st place,
  • 18 points for 2nd place,
  • 15 points for 3rd place,
  • 12 points for 4th place,
  • 10 points for 5th place,
  • 8 points for 6th place,
  • 6 points for 7th place,
  • 4 points for 8th place,
  • 2 points for 9th place,
  • 1 point for 10th place.

    • In the Forwardcharm Fantasy F1, points are awarded as follows.

  • Each driver scores championship points for his final placing in accordance with the points he scores in the real F1 championship.
  • Each driver scores the same championship points for his qualifying position as listed on the Qualifying Results pages on f1.com.
  • Each driver that finishes gets an extra 2 points. The finishing rule has changed for Turkey 2010 because f1.com was making silly rulings. The last driver to get the finish bonus is now the lowest classified driver who crosses the line to take the chequered flag. Anyone classified as ahead of this driver gets the finishing bonus even if he himself crashed on his last lap. ("Classified" refers to the finishing order listed on f1.com)
  • Fastest lap is worth another 10 points.
  • Your car generates points from both drivers in that team. The unweighted score for your car is the average of the unweighted scores of the two drivers in that F1 team.
  • ALL points are multiplied by that selection's weighting, as described above. The effect of the weighting is that crap drivers and cars score more if they do well.

    • Notes

    There are some other points to bear in mind:

  • No changes will be permissible once the race weekend starts. The site is generally locked down at midnight on the night of the Friday before the race.
  • If your selection doesn't take part in the race for any reason, they don't score any points. If they are replaced then you get the replacement in your team instead. If your driver moves to another team without a break, you stick with that driver.
  • With the FIA's penchant for deciding race results weeks after an event has finished, we have to draw the line somewhere. If the results change by the end of the day of the race, I'll update the scores, but not if they change after that. Of course, if it turns out that I've made a mistake (perish the thought) then I'll correct the scores at any time.

    • Privacy

    This site is not secure. Your password will be transmitted over the internet in plain-text and so could potentially be read by dodgy Nigerians. For this reason, it is advisable not to use a password that you use elsewhere. If you forget your password, simply send an email to jimbo@forwardcharm.co.uk from the email address that you registered and I will reset it.

    The personal details you enter (name, email address and password) will be used solely for the running of the Forwardcharm Fantasy F1 site and will not be used or distributed for any other purpose without your prior consent.

    Have fun!

    That's all. If you have any problems, please let me know so I can do something about it.

    I hope you enjoy playing Forwardcharm Fantasy F1.